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Teaching at the Smart: Integrating Object-Based Learning into the Core

Friday, April 21st, 1:30 – 2:50pm

Smart Museum of Art

The Core curriculum is as much about cultivating diverse modes of inquiry as it is exploring a common set of ideas across the disciplines. Utilizing the Smart Museum of Art’s expansive collection—which ranges from ancient artifacts to contemporary photography—can complement traditional text-based methods by providing another platform for close reading and evidence-based arguments. At this forum, we aim to foster a dialogue about the pedagogical value of incorporating object-driven teaching into courses in the Core and offer an opportunity for participants to reflect on how they might make use of these campus resources in their own curricula. Faculty from three different Core sequences will share case studies demonstrating how they have engaged students with particular objects from the Smart Museum, providing a foundation for a broader discussion of the goals and challenges of this mode of teaching.

Panelists:

Adrienne Brown, Department of English, on “Media Aesthetics”

Jonathan M. Hall, Departments of History and Classics, on “Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations”

Valerie Levan, Division of the Humanities, on “Reading Cultures”

Moderator:Bill Brown, Departments of English and Visual Arts, Senior Advisor to the Provost for Arts

This event is directed at current and prospective instructors in the Core. It is open to all faculty, graduate students, and postdocs, regardless of discipline. Light refreshments will be provided after the program. Please register by Thursday, April 20. Space is limited.

Sponsored by the Smart Museum of Art and the Chicago Center for Teaching.